The WB and UPN say goodbye in Sept.

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Comingsoon.net has posted an article on how The WB and UPN networks will say their “goodbyes” when they sign off the air forever in September.

The WB will sign off the air forever on Sunday, Sept. 17, by rebroadcasting the pilot episodes of several of its signature series, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Felicity and Dawson’s Creek.

In addition to the pilots, The WB plans to fill its final night with a bevy of classic promos and image campaigns from The WB’s 11-year history, says Variety. There will also be a final tribute reel featuring the hundreds of actors who have appeared on the channel’s series over the years.

Because the The WB’s final bow will take place on a Sunday—a night on which The WB airs programming from 5-10 p.m.—the blowout bye-bye will be a full five hours.

Night will kick off at 5 p.m. with the J.J. Abrams- and Matt Reeves-created Felicity, followed at 6 by Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt’s Angel. The two-hour pilot to Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer will run in primetime from 7-9 p.m.

Appropriately, Dawson’s Creek—the Kevin Williamson teen drama that put The WB on the map—will be the final show to air, running from 9-10 p.m.

Some shows that would seem a natural for the last night—such as Smallville and 7th Heaven—won’t appear because they’ll live on at the merged WB-UPN, which is called The CW.

All the studios involved will get a free on-air promo of the DVD collections of their respective series.

Across town, UPN has not yet announced how, or if, it will mark its own demise, which takes place the previous Friday, Sept. 15.